What We've Been Missing: the Classics in Color

Don't get excited, Ted Turner. I'm talking about classical sculpture and architecture, which has always seemed more abstract and universal because it lacked color (color: how garish! how baroque!)
But as scholars have known for a while but kept mostly to themselves, color was a big part of classical art, meaning that Renaissance sculpture and the later neoclassical style was actually quite innovative; it just thought it was being entirely derivative.
The true ancient style was dripping in color, that unfortunately washed away in time.
There's an exhibit right now at the Sackler Museum at Harvard, but I hope more reproductions start popping up in other places, too, so we can all witness the ancient world in color.

Here's some background from a German archeology site.